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Four Books

I think I’ve been a little disperse! I am used to read two books at the same time but never four. Usually I have a book to read at bedtime and another that I read during the day. Now I am with 4 in hand and that is not good.

I started one from my favorite bedtime writer, but usually I am so tired when I go to bed that I hardly can read a page of it. At this rate, I have a bedtime book until the end of the year!!!

Last December I started a book about photography. After four chapters, I just couldn’t read a single page more. I don’t feel a single desire of reading it. Am I picking the wrong books???

I received a fiction book as Christmas gift from a Mozambican writer. The plot is very interesting. The language appealing and easy to read… Nevertheless, I keep falling asleep at the first pages. When I return to it, I have to go back 10 pages or more because it involves so many characters that I forget who is who from one day to the next. This book tells the story of various individuals living in the same street. To avoid the repetitive reading, I keep a map where I have names, what they do and where they live. Isn’t this strange???

I was already feeling worried with myself because I am a voracious reader! I am used to start a book and read it in a blow. Recently I picked another book, an easy reading one that I almost finished during our last travel to South Africa. I avoid telling names because it looks like I am advertising places and products, but I can say that the author is a French woman. I never thought to find another person admitting an addiction to mille-feuilles! Besides, the life experiences and impressions of the writer in question are very similar to my owns. Finally I was reading a book like books should be read!!!

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I love to read as well, but I am picky. I won’t finish a book that I’m not interested in. As for keeping a map of names with what they do and where they live, that’s completely normal! Really, it is. When I read Salman Rushdie’s Midnight Children I had a list because otherwise I was completely lost. By the way, it’s a very good book. Tell more about what kinds of books you like to read! I’m always looking for something new to read.

You know something, SFS? After writing this text I started to enjoy the books I had in hand again. One of those crazy things! The only left behind is the one about photography. I am not a good book adviser because I don’t risk reading new authors. It is like a closed circle formed between favorites and I. Sometimes a newcomer enters the circle, when I am surprised with a book or a writer. I keep reading the same books and writers over and over again. In reality, what I really would like is to have more time to do the things that I like, including reading. Not long ago I finished Il Disprezzo of Alberto Moravia, a member of the circle… I just remembered how you are interested in Italy! I’ll give a try to Midnight Children and let you know what I think. Have a good week. Seabell

Hey, Seabell! I honed in on this blog on books because I love books. I am usually reading at least two, sometimes as many as four. It may take years to get through some of them, though the lighter reading may take hours to days. I like to have some fiction while also having some nonfiction. I have to admit I have one book which I began some time ago, on the civil rights movement here in America in the late 50’s and 60’s; in fact, it has to do with what was taking place here in Nashville, Tennessee, where I live. I, of course, read in English and am reading a book published in 1984 which one the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for that year. I won’t advertise either. Good to speak with you, my friend. KP (Daniel)

Yep! Sometimes we have to admit that we picked the wrong book. I am reading in French, Portuguese and English, no wonder I never learn one of them perfectly! Yesterday I have spent a great deal of time inside 3 bookstores trying to get some authors and couldn’t find a single one. It was such a disappointment! Next week I shall have a “poetry day”. Meanwhile, have a great weekend up there, in your Tennessee! Seabell